By Night Entertainment have reached a license deal with CCP Games, owners of White Wolf and World of Darkness, to produce an update to the LARP system Mind’s Eye Threatre. The Live Action Role Playing system for World of Darkness, Mind’s Eye Theatre, debuted in 1993. Although there have been Grand Masquerades for fans, organised […]
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Games Workshop boss quits
Games Workshop’s CEO, Mark Wells, announced today that he’ll be stepping down. The British company posted their half year performance today and the results are good. In the six months running to December sales increased from £62.7 million to £67.5 million and at the same time the company reduced operating expenses by £1.4 million. Where […]
Wizards without Coats: Hand Gestures
Clubs are effective agains wizards. The startWizards without Coats Next > Next time you cast a spell to warm your cocoa, could you please… NOT USE HAND GESTURES! Today, Geek Native launches a new series: Wizards without Coats. Remind you of any RPG companies? Can’t think who. Any similarities are purely coincidental. Fans of […]
Interface Zero 2.0: Full Metal Cyberpunk kickstarter
[Back this Campaign] Interface Zero 2.0 launched with lots of buzz. We’re a day or so into the Kickstarter campaign and the $10,000 goal has already been met. Gun Metal Games and David Jarvis have raised $16,200 with 240 backers and more than 40 days to go. They’ve two backers at the $350+ mark too. […]
Land of the (Undead) Lost spooks players with zombie dinosaurs
These miniatures were sculpted by a special encounter in a Pathfinder RPG. The GM’s wife was the creative talent, using Super Sculpey over a wire and aluminum foil armature to build the bodies from scratch. Via Reddit.
Is the $50K Dwimmermount RPG Megadungeon doomed?
Kickstarter projects for RPGs and gamers are still going strong. They’re still a great way to bring products to the market and to fans that would have never been able to make it otherwise. However, as time ticks on we’re now looking for some of the older projects to start to deliver and it’s a […]
Rebuild EN World (Kickstarter makes an exception)
Popular gaming forum EN World has had a tough 2012. The site towers above many others in the RPG fan space and represents an aspirational success for Geek Native – but it was also an aspiration for hackers. In December last year the site was infected by malware. Kickstarter doesn’t deal with web build projects […]
Exclusive: Rip open the Primeval roleplaying game
The Primeval roleplaying game lets you live the adventures of the anomalies yourself. The tabletop RPG, written by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, is published by Cubicle 7 and only needs friends and a couple of six-sided dice to get going. Last week, as part of “New Year, New Game”, Gareth answered some questions about the game and […]
Dicing with Design
This guest post is written by Joe Prince, owner of Prince of Darkness Games and author of Eternal Contenders, due out in print this year via Chronicle City. Eternal Contenders is a GM-free game, that puts the characters in the role of gladiators and was a nominee in the UK Games Expo. Joe is known […]
The art of New Horizon, a sci-fi RPG
New Horizon is a sci-fi RPG that uses the Volt system. There is a free download for the New Horizon’s starter guide (PDF link) for anyone already curious. The game has a website up at New Horizons RPG.com which introduces the world, the races like Medeans, Warfans and monsters that eat both organic and non-organic […]
